Ms Marion Martin:

We have the person from the Department of Education and Skills who heads up SUSI on the project board. We are taking on a lot of the learnings from SUSI. In relation to the income assessment, the Deputy was referring moreso to means assessments. We have worked through the means assessment model for the affordable child care scheme and engaged in a peer-review process with SUSI, the Department of Social Protection and the HSE's medical card unit to get their experiences and learnings on the assessment models they use and the difficulties they encounter in making the process as efficient as possible.